Version 12 really does seem a bit more accurate, a bit swifter and offers useful extensions, like better control of on-line email. VerdictĪlthough it’s the only choice in town for PC speech recognition, Dragon NaturallySpeaking hasn’t sat on its laurels.
Personally, I’d rather have the near-instant recognition provided by DNS 12, though this isn’t always possible on lower spec devices. The two technologies are aimed primarily at different tasks and each is well tailored. The range of dictation controls in Siri, even on Mountain Lion Macs, is smaller than in DNS and correction of mis-recognised text relies on simpler commands. DNS is designed to operate Windows, major applications like Office and to take dictation.
AI is used to interpret a wide range of queries which aren’t required in DNS. It also means you have to have a Cloud connection to use it and that recognition speed depends in part on the connection speed.Īlso, voice recognition on the iPhone 4S is primarily intended for commands, rather than dictation. This means you have to dictate largely blind and it can make correction more fiddly. Siri, on the other hand, does its recognition on servers in the Cloud – devices send information in larger chunks, to keep the overall recognition rate up. DNS converts speech as you talk, so, if necessary, you can say a short phrase or a single word and have it recognised very quickly on the computer on which it’s installed. Now if you're wondering about Apple's alternatives, there’s one key difference between Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Siri, the speech recognition in the iPhone 4S and in OSX Mountain Lion. Most Nuance DNS Premium 12 commands work on words rather than phrases However, the requirement to repeatedly click on the program’s microphone icon before every exercise and on retries, quickly becomes tedious. If these bugbears seems a little niche then, for mainstream users and those coming to DNS for the first time, the new interactive tutorial will prove useful. Indeed, there's plenty of room for Smart Format Rules to get smarter. It would be very helpful to be able to instruct the program to change the default format for all unit abbreviations, rather than having to set each one individually, which is still the case in DNS 12. Alas, you have to change individually every abbreviated unit of measure to remove the preceding space. So, I write five kilograms (below 10), but 15kg, not 15 kg, the latter being the default in DNS. However, most also require units of measure to follow directly after a number, with no space between. Most UK titles require numbers below 10 to be spelt out with those above to appear as numerals and DNS 12 gets this, so we're doing fine so far. Limited facility to make global formatting changes
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